Preface

Introduction: Geopolitics, Ecology, and National Character

I. Pre-Imperial Rus and the Beginnings of Empire

1. Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the Rise of Muscovy

2. Ivan IV and the Expansion of Muscovy

II. The Troubled Building of Empire

3. The Turbulent Seventeenth Century

4. Peter the Great and Europeanization

III. Russia as European Empire

5. State and Society in the Eighteenth Century

6. The Reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I

IV. Imperial Crisis

7. Alexander II's Uncertain Reforms

9. The Rise of Nationalism

V. Revolution and Utopia

9. Social Change and Revolution

10. War and Revolution

11. Social Transformation and Terror

12. Soviet Society Takes Shape

VI. The Decline and Fall of Utopia

13. Recovery and Cold War

14. Soviet Society under "Developed Socialism"

15. From Perestroika to Russian Federation

Chronology

Notes

Index